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BOSTON – It's 6:15 p.m. and the rest of the Miami Heat players are elsewhere, in the locker room, the weight room, each doing things to get ready for a game. Rookie Shabazz Napier is out on the floor at TD Garden. There's a session of full-court sprints, timed by athletic trainer Jay Sabol. Then at 6:25 there is a review of video, courtside, with Dan Craig, assistant coach for player development, and then well more than 100 shots, three-pointers from all around the arc, free throws, reverse layups, as Craig monitors the technique. Napier is dripping with sweat as he finally walks off and signs a few autographs for fans leaning over a railing as the countdown to game time...

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